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Conquering the Anxiety Monster: Sissy Goff

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Parenting through anxiety? Author Sissy Goff shares ways to wrangle our parenting worries and connect deeply with our kids. Can we find relief?

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I'm so much angrier. When I'm sad, when I'm worried about something and I'm not talking about it,

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it really I think almost always comes out as anchor.

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And I don't mean for it too and it breaks my heart that that's what happens but it happens. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

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I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

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You can find us at FamilyLife Today.

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So how many nights do you think you could not sleep as a parent even as a grandparent? How many sleepless nets? I'm sad to say so many when they were little I would fall asleep thinking of all the

0:56.2

things I did wrong that day when they were teens I would fall asleep wondering

1:00.6

what things they could be doing wrong.

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And now with adult kids, now I fall asleep, recounting and worrying

1:07.0

over all the things I did do wrong while they were growing up

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and how it might be affecting them today.

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Isn't that terrible?

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Do you worry about anything?

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Yeah, I worry about money.

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I mean, when I think about sleepless nights,

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it's usually connected to, back then it was paying for college, you know,

1:26.3

preparing them for the future. Now it's grandkids and how much money we're

1:29.8

spending at Christmas. You mean how much money I'm spending on them? I didn't want to say it that way.

1:35.0

That's good. I'm glad you spend something because I don't think I'd spend anything. But anyway, we're here to talk with

1:39.8

Sissy Golf about parents that worry because that's us and I think that's almost every parent.

1:45.4

I would guess every listener has something they worry about.

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